Stellaluna Book Companion Preschool Kindergarten 1st 2nd Sped

About this resource

One theme, one week. Read the same book every day at circle time: a baby bat is raised for a

time by a family of birds, learns their ways, and then finds her way back home to her own kind.

After the read-aloud each day, pull one simple activity: sort nighttime things from everyday

things, count stars, find the letter B, put the steps of finding your way home in order, then

build a bat-in-the-tree craft with two birds, a tree, a house, a banana, two clouds, the moon and

two stars. Every student page has one short instruction with a picture, so a paraprofessional can

run the room from it too.

This week pairs with **Stellaluna by Janell Cannon** (or any gentle bat-and-birds story you already

have). This resource is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author or publisher. You need your

own copy of the book; nothing from it is reproduced here, and every picture in the file is our own

drawing or a licensed picture set, not the book's artwork.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (58 pages)

• 1 Start Here week plan: what to do after the read-aloud each day, plus what else it practices
• 1 book-and-words page naming the read-aloud, an original circle-time chant ("Little Bat, Find

Your Way," written for this unit — no song or story text is reprinted), and the 9 circle-time

vocabulary words

• 9 smartboard slides for whole-group circle time on a projector or interactive board: the cover

art, name the pictures, sort, count (3 slides), the letter hunt, the life skill in order, and the

core word

• 9 circle-time vocabulary cards to cut out and use at the carpet (bat, bird, tree, moon, star,

cloud, house, banana, wing)

• Day 1, Sort (is it a nighttime thing, or not?), at 3 levels: Level 1 errorless matching, Level 2

the standard two-group sort (8 cut-and-glue pieces), Level 3 a third group added (nighttime

thing, daytime thing, or not related — 10 cut-and-glue pieces), both levels agreeing on what

counts as a nighttime thing

• Day 2, Count the stars, at 3 levels: Levels 1 and 2 count sets of 1 to 5 with a 5-piece numeral

strip to cut and glue; Level 3 counts sets of 6 to 10 and writes the number, no cutting

• Day 3, Letter B, at 3 levels: Level 1 glues 5 matching B's, Level 2 finds B among 10 look-alike

letters, Level 3 says 10 pictures aloud and glues the 5 that start like "bat"

• Writing, at 3 levels: Level 1 traces the big letters, Level 2 traces letters and the word "bat,"

Level 3 writes the letters and the word independently on primary lines

• Day 4, a life-skill sequencing page: 5 picture pieces (4 real finding-your-way-home steps — see

the moon, fly to the tree, find your home, say goodnight to the stars — first/next/then/last,

plus 1 that does not belong)

• Day 5, a book craft: color and cut a plain bat body, then a sheet of 10 pieces (two birds, a

tree, a house, a banana, two clouds, the moon and two stars — every cut a straight dashed

rectangle) and glue them around the bat in a tree at night

• 2 fine motor pages: a tracing-paths page and a cutting-practice page (4 strips, easiest first)
• 4 core-word pages for the word of the week, "home": a big word card for the talker or core board,

a 12-word find-and-circle grid (6 of the 12 are the target word "home"), a bat to color (ears and

wings already drawn on, for the simplest level of this task), and 10 pictures to cut out and glue

around it

• 1 "Who Did What This Week" data page (one row per student, a prompt-level code for each day —

handy for IEP notes and progress reports)

• 1 family letter to send home on Day 1
• 1 "More From Bright Path Sped" page: four more theme weeks that pair naturally with this one,

shown with their own real covers

• 1 credits page (art and font licenses)
• Ink-saver twins of 19 picture-based student pages (the craft and pure-coloring pages are

color-only) in outline art for a photocopier, so the color pages above are optional, not required

Three Levels On Every Academic Task

Sort, count, letters and writing each come in three levels, marked with a small shape instead of

a number so children don't compare theirs to a neighbor's: a circle for starting (errorless

matching), a square for building (the standard task), a triangle for ready for more (a real step

up — a third sort group, counting 6 to 10 with writing, or beginning sounds).

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cutting page carries 5 or more pieces, lined up edge to edge so each cut is one straight

line. Pre-cut them yourself for students who are not cutting independently yet.

Color Or Ink-Saver

Print the color pages, or use the ink-saver twins at the back on a photocopier — most

picture-based student pages have both (the craft and pure-coloring pages are color-only by design).

Who This Is For

Any teacher starting a self-contained preschool or early childhood special education classroom

who wants a whole week of circle time, ready to pull and go: one theme, a different simple

activity every day.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-go weekly theme unit built around a little bat finding her way home. It is not a

claim about any student's family, living situation, or any student's real age or rate of progress,

and it does not reproduce any book, its text, or its artwork — only our own bat, bird and

night-sky-picture pieces are drawn here. The sorting activity ("is it a nighttime thing, or not?")

is a simple classroom sorting task, not a scientific or clinical claim.